I would like to take my truck down to Hollister this Sunday and try out the park. I've been there on two wheels but this will be my first try on 4 wheels. I would like to find a buddy to go with, if anyone's interested.

The agenda would include only easy stuff cause the truck's new and stock, I don't want to damage anything, and I'll have my little girls (3 yrs old) with me.

Anyone available to show us around a little bit? Maybe show us somewhere for a cool lunch spot...

Don't feel like you have to have experience. If you're a newbie as well, I'm sure we could find a few interesting spots together. I have a recovery strap, so we would have the potential to get each other out of trouble (or into more of it...)

Yeah most of the trails are marked. But there are quite a few trails that are not marked, perhaps they're trails that people have made on their own over time. You can ask for a map at the front ranger station when you pay to get in, then just cross reference the trails with whats on the map. Just use common sense and you'll be able to navigate just fine. i.e. You're on a trail and the next right is suppose to be X trail (as indicated by the map), but its unmarked. Sometimes passing it up, you'll find the correct turn off shortly after.

And yes the greens are just like fire trails, some with more of an incline than others, but easily doable.

I won't be able to make it on the 13th as well, but a bunch of us go there at different times. We usually have 2-3 big meets there every year where we'll have 20-40 trucks. So you'll have your chances to go up with some of us sometime soon.

We had a great time. My girls loved playing in the dirt, and I had a lot of fun wheeling.

Greens turned out to be laughably easy - I'm pretty sure my wife's passenger car could've done most of that. Blues got a little more difficult as we went up to the overlook.

We ran into a group of range rovers doing a driving school and one of the instructors invited us to follow them for a bit (doors open when you have cute kids with you :-) ), so we ended up doing "Fremontia Rd and Hill Climb Return", which were both black diamonds. No issues, even stock. Very impressed with the truck's capabilities.

I did manage to get myself stuck in the "flexing" section of the obstacle course with one front and one rear in the air and had to lock the rear diff to get moving again.